Pretty Dumb Question

This is a discussion on Pretty Dumb Question within the C++ Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; Ok, can anybody tell me how I can read this combination of text and variables into a character array?
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assumption #1: all variables are strings
assumption #2: you want just a unidimensional array of char and not an array of strings.
assumption #3: no other commas are allowed in the input except as delineators